Wake me up when he has these to go with it: Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Awesome book, by the way. 2,700+ sorties during WWII -- the mind boggles. Pity it is out of print and thus ridiculously priced...
What is something that old people expect from a car when they hit the gas? Noise. A hybrid pulling away from a stop is highly likely to be running on electricity, and making close to zero noise, especially to someone hard of hearing. No audio feedback = less aware their car was moving = lawsuit, I mean accident.
Whatever you do, don't leave a bunch of Wired pages in your browser and leave for the weekend. You will be refreshing thosee pages every minute for the next three days. That annoys the yellow bodily fluids out of me.
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Thanks! I had forgotten that Fight Club is on tonight on TCM.
OOo.GT. MS Office in at least one big way: installation size. The latest OOo installer is less than half the size of MS O2K. I have no interest in trying newer versions of MS Office but I imagine they are considerably bigger than O2K.
So, any feature comparisons have to take into account that OOo does it all with much less disk space (and yes disk space is an issue on my Eee with its 16GB SSD).
I was going for humor but I guess it whooshed over everyone's heads.
The humor being that the person couldn't remember the version of the OS they had used, when it was the previous version to the one just released. Explaining feeble attempts at humor is like taking a straw and sucking the air out of a room. I doubt I'll be here all week.
T-mobile's pay-as-you-go is 10 cents a minute without any need for code (assuming you put in $100 for 1000 minutes). We've been using it for 9 months and love it.
I call B.S. The average slashdotter knows his version number to 6 digits. Mine is 5.1.2600 and I've grown rather fond of it. The idea that some day I would start calling it "5.1 I believe" is repulsive.
My father, my older brother and myself have studied magic a lot. I was reading about Houdini, Hardeen and all the other varients at an early age. We watched Kreskin and similar shows. We went to see Reveen. My brother was very good at magic, and chess, and math and lots of brainy stuff. And we discussed how tricks were done. We're not stupid hicks.
And conversely this neighbor was not the type to play tricks. Maybe you've not met many sincere simple people. If not, I feel sorry for your lack of exposure. I've worked with this guy, moved hay bales and picked fruit with him, and he would probably be described as dull by most city types. But he had something we didn't have. He had his feet in the earth, he was connected and in that moment he was a vehicle for a phenomena. In my opinion.
There are lots of interesting things in life that science does not have all mapped out. Reading someone's thoughts, for example. It is impossible to intelligently debate these things in an online forum such as this. The polite thing to do is to agree to disagree. The wise thing to do is leave at least one iota of doubt in your mind, one slight chance of possibility. That way you might follow that slight trail of bread crumbs and end up discovering something significant to your life in the future. Otherwise you might just stay a useless know-it-all.
Heh, I'm telling you he knew the stream was there. Hence the "of course" above. That wasn't the amazing thing.
What the branch itself did was amazing. Animated. Stretching itself toward the ground. Arching. Straining. Moving. And I was a foot away. This wasn't a tale he was telling me. I saw it. And I think it is more than possible.
The closest thing I can compare it to is one day I tried to take a cat away from its (deceased) owner (to the animal shelter). I calmly carried the cat and it was quite happy until it got close to the edge of the property. At this point the cat politely decided to leave. I calmly decided to restrain it. The cat tried harder. So did I. The cat turned into 5 pounds of pure muscle and I lost. The transition of that cat was like the transition of the wood. The wood didn't just jiggle or point in a straight manner. It curved. Progressively and more forcefully. It distorted itself so much you would think it would break. All while someone calmly held the tips of one end of it. If you see something like that, you remember it. I did, and I do.
I'm not asking you to believe what I say. I am just giving you one data point. Your mileage may vary.
I've seen a dowser in action. Our family of city folks moved to the country some decades back. We moved next to third generation farmers. The patriarch was the most easy-going, friendly, all-the-time-in-the-world-for-you kind of guy you would ever imagine lived on this planet. Worked all day every day. Had no one to show off to, no one to notice what he did except us, I suppose.
One day he had stopped his truck by our orchard, taking one of his perfectly untimed smoke breaks, and the subject of dowsing came up. He talked about not only finding water but also being able to figure out flow rates and depth. He proceeded to cut a Y-shaped branch from a tree and dowse our property. We had a known stream that flowed through the property and he found it, of course. But what I remember was how that inanimate branch turned into a straining, curving, living thing as it dived toward the ground. In my mind there was simply no way you could hold a branch and make it do that -- the branch itself wanted to do it, and did it.
It is incredibly easy to be skeptical and cynical, until you have seen something that rivals the best magician's trick. From a guy who spent most of every day of his life by himself.
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ditch the French language. The sooner it is dead, the better. We don't need it.
Cette.
...and the only innovation they've added to it has been the Wii Fit board 2 years ago...
MotionPlus
(1) Buy this
(2) Point it in his general direction.
(3) Tell him "I've decided you can keep clicking that pen. I really don't care any more. Click away, click away."
Wake me up when he has these to go with it: Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Awesome book, by the way. 2,700+ sorties during WWII -- the mind boggles. Pity it is out of print and thus ridiculously priced...
I think you meant http://drstyles.deviantart.com.
What is something that old people expect from a car when they hit the gas? Noise. A hybrid pulling away from a stop is highly likely to be running on electricity, and making close to zero noise, especially to someone hard of hearing. No audio feedback = less aware their car was moving = lawsuit, I mean accident.
I found two occurences of "Launch" and changed both and Foxit 3.0 fired up and read PDFs just fine.
Whatever you do, don't leave a bunch of Wired pages in your browser and leave for the weekend. You will be refreshing thosee pages every minute for the next three days. That annoys the yellow bodily fluids out of me.
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Thanks! I had forgotten that Fight Club is on tonight on TCM.
There's a reason I use my HIPPA rights to make sure my records only live on paper.
That would be your HIPAA rights.
OOo .GT. MS Office in at least one big way: installation size. The latest OOo installer is less than half the size of MS O2K. I have no interest in trying newer versions of MS Office but I imagine they are considerably bigger than O2K.
So, any feature comparisons have to take into account that OOo does it all with much less disk space (and yes disk space is an issue on my Eee with its 16GB SSD).
Stuff.co.nz took over one of my cores for several minutes before I was able to close that tab. WTF is wrong with them?
Google confirms 130M hits for "mobile phone" vs 93M hits for "cell phone". I'm going to make "Can I have your mobile, cutie?" my New Years Resolution!
Baseless promises about the future are the same reason the US has a giant deficit
No, you can blame the total control of the Federal Reserve for that. [More]
Thanks for the link.
Typosquarting is a money making scheme, that offers nothing to the public
Typosquirting is also a money making scheme, that offers something to the public if done, er, in public.
I was going for humor but I guess it whooshed over everyone's heads.
The humor being that the person couldn't remember the version of the OS they had used, when it was the previous version to the one just released. Explaining feeble attempts at humor is like taking a straw and sucking the air out of a room. I doubt I'll be here all week.
T-mobile's pay-as-you-go is 10 cents a minute without any need for code (assuming you put in $100 for 1000 minutes). We've been using it for 9 months and love it.
Actually it uses sandboxing and is available for Vista and XP only.
I liked OpenSuse (11.1 I believe)
I call B.S. The average slashdotter knows his version number to 6 digits. Mine is 5.1.2600 and I've grown rather fond of it. The idea that some day I would start calling it "5.1 I believe" is repulsive.
Yup, you're right!
My father, my older brother and myself have studied magic a lot. I was reading about Houdini, Hardeen and all the other varients at an early age. We watched Kreskin and similar shows. We went to see Reveen. My brother was very good at magic, and chess, and math and lots of brainy stuff. And we discussed how tricks were done. We're not stupid hicks.
And conversely this neighbor was not the type to play tricks. Maybe you've not met many sincere simple people. If not, I feel sorry for your lack of exposure. I've worked with this guy, moved hay bales and picked fruit with him, and he would probably be described as dull by most city types. But he had something we didn't have. He had his feet in the earth, he was connected and in that moment he was a vehicle for a phenomena. In my opinion.
There are lots of interesting things in life that science does not have all mapped out. Reading someone's thoughts, for example. It is impossible to intelligently debate these things in an online forum such as this. The polite thing to do is to agree to disagree. The wise thing to do is leave at least one iota of doubt in your mind, one slight chance of possibility. That way you might follow that slight trail of bread crumbs and end up discovering something significant to your life in the future. Otherwise you might just stay a useless know-it-all.
Heh, I'm telling you he knew the stream was there. Hence the "of course" above. That wasn't the amazing thing.
What the branch itself did was amazing. Animated. Stretching itself toward the ground. Arching. Straining. Moving. And I was a foot away. This wasn't a tale he was telling me. I saw it. And I think it is more than possible.
The closest thing I can compare it to is one day I tried to take a cat away from its (deceased) owner (to the animal shelter). I calmly carried the cat and it was quite happy until it got close to the edge of the property. At this point the cat politely decided to leave. I calmly decided to restrain it. The cat tried harder. So did I. The cat turned into 5 pounds of pure muscle and I lost. The transition of that cat was like the transition of the wood. The wood didn't just jiggle or point in a straight manner. It curved. Progressively and more forcefully. It distorted itself so much you would think it would break. All while someone calmly held the tips of one end of it. If you see something like that, you remember it. I did, and I do.
I'm not asking you to believe what I say. I am just giving you one data point. Your mileage may vary.
I've seen a dowser in action. Our family of city folks moved to the country some decades back. We moved next to third generation farmers. The patriarch was the most easy-going, friendly, all-the-time-in-the-world-for-you kind of guy you would ever imagine lived on this planet. Worked all day every day. Had no one to show off to, no one to notice what he did except us, I suppose.
One day he had stopped his truck by our orchard, taking one of his perfectly untimed smoke breaks, and the subject of dowsing came up. He talked about not only finding water but also being able to figure out flow rates and depth. He proceeded to cut a Y-shaped branch from a tree and dowse our property. We had a known stream that flowed through the property and he found it, of course. But what I remember was how that inanimate branch turned into a straining, curving, living thing as it dived toward the ground. In my mind there was simply no way you could hold a branch and make it do that -- the branch itself wanted to do it, and did it.
It is incredibly easy to be skeptical and cynical, until you have seen something that rivals the best magician's trick. From a guy who spent most of every day of his life by himself.
Do prisoners passing from one part of the prison to another undergo this much inspection?